Student Death Procedure
Over the past year, the BIRT Team (Behavioral Intervention Report Team) has been developing a procedure to address the very unfortunate occurrence of a student death within the NMC student population. This procedure is now in place to give faculty and staff some...
Do You Use VHS Technology or Video Distribution?
We are in the last phase of removing VHS Technology from our campus. Soon, we will no longer have any VHS tapes in our media library nor will we have VHS players for use with your own VHS tapes. If you are still actively using a VHS tape from our library, please let...
Is there an app for that?
The data seems to be coming in that supports the idea that playing games can increase knowledge. In one study, it was found that playing an app called Motion Math: Fractions for 20 minutes a day for five days increased fraction knowledge by 15% among 120 elementary...
Twenty-Minute Mentor Series
In addition to the CIE-sponsored Friday Forums, please consider placing the following Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on your calendar: December 13th, January 17th, February 14th, and March 14th. Those are the upcoming dates of the CIE-sponsored 20-Minute Mentor...
Defunct Adjunct
Hello, my name is Ryan and I'm a defunct adjunct. I've brought it all upon myself. In addition to being an adjunct at NMC, I have a full-time gig at a local Internet hosting company in Traverse City where I host daily webinars teaching people how to create their own...
Go Lions
In these last few weeks of the semester, I find that more of the learners in the classroom are attempting to catch-up on the material in order to pass the final. As I watched my Lions drop another game to the Steelers, I remember the advice I was given when I...
In Search of the Somatic: an ending
The following quote by President John F. Kennedy serves as a timely reminder that health, physical education, recreation, and dance are crucial to the education of all students. "Physical fitness in not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the...
So many suggestions! Where do I start?
Teaching / learning ideas tap our shoulders all the time. Which are worthy? Would Think-Pair-Share work for me, or should I try One-Minute Paper instead? Can I do both - and maybe Muddiest Point too? When I attend a cross-discipline conference, I typically find a...
Clickers in the Classroom
"Clickers lead to teachable moments in the classroom." That's part of what Linda Walter and Jean Rokos have to say about clickers. Linda is in her fourth year and Jean is in her first year of using clickers in the classroom. The benefits they see to students: Improved...
Test Anxiety
I have to admit, I don’t understand test anxiety. I have students that tell me they have test anxiety, and that when they sit down to take a test they go blank. I do believe these students, but I don’t understand it. I don’t understand it because I seldom get stressed...